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Thank you for the music history! I'm guessing that Pure Phase would be a recommendation seeing as that is the second Spiritualized album you allude to in addition to Spacemen 3?
Yeah, I personally prefer Lazer Guided Melodies to Pure Phase but it’s more of the same, if you enjoy LGM you will like also enjoy Pure Phase.

If you are curious where to start with Spacemen 3 I would recommend beginning with the end with Recurring, it’s their last album as a group. Sonic Boom and Jason were essentially working separately by that point and each wrote all the songs for a side, Sonic Boom on Side A and Pierce on Side B respectively. You think it would be disjointed but I think it worked surprisingly well. Their best album as a functioning band was probably Playing With Fire, The Perfect Prescription is quite good too. If you wanna get a bit weirder (in a good way) check out Dreamweapon which consists mostly of a 40 minute long repetitive, droney, instrumental piece called “An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music” that was recorded live. It’s hypnotic.
 
The River's Invitation: American Soul Music 1960 - 1973

The 8th release in this incredible series put out by Cairo Records. I randomly made a stop at Mississippi Records yesterday, and they had just added it to the floor. Eric told me I was literally the first one in the world to purchase it. Can't say that has ever happened before!

In any case, this one sounds amazing. A great 2xLP soul compilation of hits and deep cuts from the 60's and early 70's. It comes with a 28-page color booklet, with detailed information on each artist. All for $21. Just incredible value in this day and age of rising prices and gouging.

I've got all 8 releases at this point, a treasured part of the collection for sure.

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